 | Robert Demaus - 1860 - 580 páginas
...the world, or other men, because they cannot be quiet themselves, though nobody hurts them. When all is done, human life is, at the greatest and the best,...quiet till it falls asleep, and then the care is over. 3. COMPARISON OF ANCIENT AND MODERN LEARNING. — (" ESSAY UPON THE ANCIENT AND MODERN LEARNING.")1... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1878 - 828 páginas
...all the care is over ; " and the concluding sentence of Sir William Temple's Essay on Poetry : — " Human life is at the greatest and the best but like...till it falls asleep, and then the care is over." Goldsmith's epitaph on the unfortunate bookseller's hack, his college friend, Ned Purdon — who Led... | |
 | Sunbeams - 1861 - 368 páginas
...comes and disappears ; Thus life is but a moment's trance Of memories, hopes, and fears. — When all is done, human life is, at the greatest and the best,...little to keep it quiet till it falls asleep, and the care is over. — Sir W. Temple. — Life may be compared to a summer residence at a watering place.... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1865 - 244 páginas
...the world, or other men, because they cannot be quiet themselves, though nobody hurts them. When all is done, human life is, at the greatest and the best,...quiet till it falls asleep, and then the care is over. JOHN BTTNYAN: 1628-1688. Banyan, a poor, uneducated tinker, after travelling about the country for... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1867 - 582 páginas
...because they cannot be quiet themselves, though nobody hurts them." " When all is done (he concludes), human life is at the greatest and the best but like...till it falls asleep, and then the care is over." BAEBARA SON the noon of the 14th of November, 1743 or 4, I forget which it was, just as the clock had... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1894 - 464 páginas
...because they cannot be quiet themselves, though nobody hurts them." " When all is done (he concludes), human life is at the greatest and the best but like...be played with, and humoured a little, to keep it qiu'et, till it falls asleep, and then the care is over." BARBARA SON the noon of the 14th of November,... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1867 - 684 páginas
...because they cannot be quiet themselves, though nobody hurts them." " When all is done (he concludes), human life is at the greatest and the best but like a froward child, that must be played with, and humourud'a little, to keep it quiet, till it falls asleep, imd then the care is over." BARBARA ON the... | |
 | Edward George E.L. Bulwer- Lytton (1st baron.) - 1868 - 432 páginas
...till we are dead—or of making speeches, which, when dead, the world hastens to forget. "When all is done, human life is at the greatest and the best...till it falls asleep, and then the care is over."* * Sir William Temple. THE TALE OF KOSEM KESAMIM, THE MAGICIAN* * * • * * * * • * * * * * * •... | |
 | Sir Arthur Helps - 1868 - 340 páginas
...Lady of Sorrow," but I could not recollect it. Finally, I wound up with Sir William Temple, "When all is done human life is, at the greatest and the best,...till it falls asleep, and then the care is over." however, I am afraid I noticed in a parting glance at him, as he sank back in his chair, that his melancholy... | |
 | 1868 - 582 páginas
...Lady of Sorrow," but I could not recollect it. Finally, I wound up with Sir William Temple, " When all is done, human life is, at the greatest and the best,...till it falls asleep, and then the care is over." I think my conversation had, as was natural, a cheering effect for the time. He thanked me very much... | |
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When all is done, (he concludes,) human life is at the greatest and the best but like a froward child, that must be played with and humoured a little to keep it quiet, till it falls asleep, and then the care is over. 
